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Fantasy Football Auction Draft Recap

National Fantasy Football Draft Weekend has passed and on Sunday, I took part in a 12 team auction draft. This league is half PPR and has a unique roster construction with 1 QB / 1 RB / 2 WR / 1 TE / 2 FLEX/ 1 DST. Teams are able to roll with 1, 2 or 3 RB/TE on any given Sunday.

Before the draft, I downloaded auction values with my specific league setting from FantasyFootballAnalytics.net. Now, let's take a look at all those drafted for $10+ dollars and see which players were over/under valued.

Deshaun Watson being the most expensive QB is very interesting. The upside is there as we saw in a small sample last year. He was the 23rd player nominated so it is not like DreDayALLDAY was using up extra budget - he wanted his guy. Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, Drew Brees and Russell Wilson were priced right, while Cam Newton was selected at nearly 2x his projected auction value.

Using projected auction values, Jordan Howard had the largest different in actual auction price at $40, compared to a $27 projection. LeSean McCoy was the only RB who went for a discounted price greater than $5 compared to projected value. 18 of the RBs auctioned for $10+ fell between +/-$5 of their projected value.

Most franchises did not overpay for a WR as Josh Gordon was the only player above $9 difference in actual vs projected value. A.J. Green, Robert Woods, Julio Jones, Mike Evans and Stefon Diggs were the only other $5 above projected value. Interestingly enough, Antonio Brown and Odell Beckham were had BELOW their projected value. No WR was had a discounted price more than Demaryius Thomas who was projected to go for $17 but was auctioned for just $13.